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As given to the Author by his Angel Friends, from 1852 to 1880. 



BY DR, E. WOODRUFF. 



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/ would say to the reader to read and re-read this pam- 
phlet until he gets the philosophy of the writer into his mind 
as clear as he would the rules of arithmetic, then he will not 
find it difficult to understand and receive the philosophy 
with which I defy the world. 

DR. E. WOODRUFF. 






INTRODUCTION 



The following synopsis has been given to me in the 
leisure hours, away from the daily routine of professional 
business. I have never read a page of philosophy or as- 
tronomy in my life ; my experience on these subjects is 
from spirit-life, in the trans-condition of which I have 
visited four other planets besides our own. In my efforts 
to read works on these subjects, I have been withheld by 
my guardian spirits, they giving as reasons : That my 
mind was like a clean sheet of paper, upon which they 
desired to make a first, clear impression; That there was 
much error taught upon these subjects which they wished 
to overcome through me, as I had a large brain develop- 
ment in this direction, and it would be easier to write 
new philosophy than to correct old errors and false teach- 
ings. My education has been limited to the common 
district school before the age of fifteen years, the remain- 
der to natural instinct or intuition and surroundings. I 
therefore make apology to the reader for errors in ex- 
pression, asking criticism of the phylosophy only, rather 
than of the manner of expressing it. In my design to 
present the outlines of this philosophy, I shall necessari- 
ly leave many points untouched, hoping nevertheless to 
express myself sufficiently clear, that the mind of the 
reader may be able to grasp the connections and fill in 
the points left untouched. 

One Keqt^est to the Eeadek : Begin the book as 
you began your arithmetic — understand the primary 



rules and propositions first. If the reader stops and 
proves in his own mind every law laid down as he pro- 
ceeds, the whole will be clear. If not, it will seem com- 
plex, and thus a false charge come upon the writer, whol- 
ly from a want of a clear conception of the first princi- 
ples involved, while if they understand the first principles, 
they will find the whole in harmony with nature's laws. 
And if so found, and the reasoning true, then the world 
may rejoice that the road is straight and short to reach 
it. Truth is of God and will prevail. 

THE AUTHOR. 



CHAPTER I 



In reasoning from cause to effect, it is impossible to go 
back to the very first of all causes, and tell all about 
where God came from, and all the changes he has passed 
through, to get where I shall begin with him, for when 
we can do that, by the same law of reasoning we can tell 
where he will end with all his works and formations. 
Hence I claim him to be from all time in the past to all 
time in the future, the Once and Forever, Omniscient, 
Omnipresent, and filling the immensity of space, the one 
great principle of life, the Positive and Negative princi- 
ple, the all and in all. Hence there is nothing outside or 
beside him, the All that is. 

I claim the former supposed Gods of the bible, and 
others in history, to be spirits or angels, whose identity 
once inhabited the human form similar to myself and 
other mortals, either on this or some other planet in the 
stellar heavens. 

I will now give you the keys of the kingdom ; what 
are they ? 

1st. The positive in nature repels. 

2nd. The negative attracts. 

3rd. These natural conditions produce motion. 

4th. The motion of matter causes friction. 

5th. The friction causes heat. 

6th. Heat causes light. 

7th. Light causes life. 

And nothing can have life without being caused by 
these principles. Every particle of matter is alive, and 
this " living " matter is what I call God, on the whole 
the all that is, that fills immensity of space. 

These keys properly applied, will form and account for 
the following kingdoms : 

THE KINGDOMS OF GOD. 

1st. The earth kingdom. 
2nd. The mineral kingdom. 



3rd. The vegetable kingdom. 

4th. The animal kingdom. 

5th. The human kingdom. 

6th. The spiritual kingdom. 

7th. The angelic kingdom, (which is near at hand) 
called the Christ Kingdom, and I think will come on the 
26th of January, 1889, at the time that our sun makes 
one revolution around its center ; then it leaves the rodiac 
of pisis, and enters the rodiac of ancient of days. The 
planets of our solar system will then be in perihelia near 
the sun, which circumstances combined will produce a 
terrible equinoxial storm in our solar system. That I 
saw in a vision in 1867, and published 5,000 of them at 
the time. 

The word christ means a principle of unfoldment or 
development. Jesus of Nazareth unfolded to or taught 
from that sphere of development or teachings from spir- 
its. Hence they have got him confounded with the prin- 
ciples he taught. They called Jesus the Christ, and 
finally Jesus Christ, from the fact of his teachings from 
the spirits of the fourth or Christ sphere. He called him- 
self the Son of Man 81 times, and devils call him the 
Son of God once in Mathew and twice in Luke. Still 
the Church calls him the Son of God, and persists in 
doing so, while they have the words of Jesus 81 times, 
against the words of devils 3 times on the contrary. This 
is the consistency of bible teachings. 

In order to explain God and his kingdom, I will now 
go back in the realm of space as far as I can, and come 
down with safety in regard to his known laws, in regard 
to formation of his organized kingdoms, or of world mak- 
ing. Hence I will assume a time back in the eternity of 
the past, when the eternity of space was filled with cha- 
otic matter, in one eternal night of darkness of the past, 
long before any body of matter had ever existed, and 
take matter as we find it there according to our micro- 
scopic spectacles, and see what it was doing there in chaos 
in this eternal night of darkness in the past. And we 
find it floating there in little separate particles, the small- 
est of all small, even when highly magnified. We find 
the same law there, that we find here and now, viz : That 
there is not a particle of matter, however small, that 
does not have its positive and negative polarity, forming 



life and action in itself, and the same inherent law con- 
trolling it then that controlls it now. 

Hence, where we examine closely, we find the immen- 
sity of space, all in motion, caused by the inherent life 
within these particles of matter, causing the positive pole 
of one particle. Repelling the positive pole of another 
particle, and the negative pole of one particle attracting 
the positive pole of another particle causing motion, in- 
herent in itself, and which always existed. And motion 
causes friction and friction causes heat, and heat causes 
light and life. Hence, all the primary elements are found 
there at work, or in other words, God preparing him- 
self to put on formation. 

It is also a supposable natural fact, that one particle 
is larger than another and in the cource of time, one large 
particle will come in contract with a small one, caused 
by its eternal motion, and the negative battery of the large 
one will surcharge, and draw the small one to itself, 
where its polar batteries will be overpowered, and swal- 
lowed up by the larger one, and lose its own identity, 
and become con-joined to the larger one, and become a 
part and parcel of the same, and go to swell its former 
power to perform the same power on other and larger 
particles, thus in time, by this accession of power it be- 
comes a great center, sending out an influence, ever in- 
creasing in size and power, untill eventually it becomes 
a great central sun with others who are doing the same 
thing, who have been formed by the same general law, 
throughout space, until the immensity is filled with great 
central suns, for millions of miles apart. 

This thins out space, of its thickest and grossest matter, 
leaving it less dense, and capable of transmitting rays of 
light, whenever certain causes may produce them. 

We will now leave this eternity of space, and turn our 
attention to one of these central suns, that have been 
formed by the laws above given, (and we ask the reader 
to investigate the above laws of attraction and repulsion 
and see if they are correct, in every particular), and we 
will see what natural, and inherent law is doing with 
them. 

We find that they now assume immense polar batteries 
holding each other at a proper distance, and are actively 
carrying out universal law. The positive repelling and 



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the negative attracting, from all space within its reach 
and power, to its negative pole, and sending this current 
through its center of this ponderous body to the positive 
pole, and from the positive to the negative ever the sur- 
face. (This is the general law of all bodies to attract at 
the negative pole into the center, and from the center to 
repel out at the positive pole, and to be attracted over the 
surface to the negative pole, while the positive is met on 
the equator by partial negative current from the south 
pole, in all planets which repels all the lighter matter off 
at the equater as far as the positive and negative influ- 
ance can hold it. There it forms into a ring like the rings 
around Saturn, it can go no further nor come any nearer.) 
This current causes friction, and friction causes heat, and 
expansion in the center, and at the positive pole. And 
as this current escapes from the positive pole into space, 
it is partially attracted back over the surface to the nega- 
tive pole. Thus keeping up a constant surface current, 
straight from the north to the south pole. It is this cur- 
rent that controlls our magnetic needle. At the same 
time there is an attraction from the south, or negative 
pole over the surface, which meets that positive current 
from the north, , at the equatorial line on the equator, 
which is centrally located between the two poles. 

This contact of these two opposite forces on this line, 
throws off and repels all the lighter and grosser particles 
of this matter as far as the positive influence can repel it, 
and not be attracted back by the negative influence, and 
there it is held and can go no further, or come any near- 
er, thus forming a belt or ring of nebulous matter, around 
the center of the sun, or planet over the equator, like the 
rings around Saturn. 

This circle or belt of nebula is constantly being fed, 
and thickened, by this never ending current, from the 
planet within its embrace, where it is held a certain dis- 
tance from the planet by its positive and negative forces, 
and can go no further, nor come any nearer. 

These forces which are equal in power, and all matter 
either outside or inside of this line in a nebula condit- 
ion, in close proximity, is by these two forces brought in- 
to line and held there, by attraction and repulsion. And 
as time moves on, this accumalating mass of nebula, be- 
comes more ponderable and compact, and helps to increase 



the positive conditions within, and to hold back the at- 
tractive forces from without, next to the surface, under 
this belt. Hence the excessive heat from within causes 
great outward pressure, and the negative forces from with- 
out being retarded or partially held up by this thick belt 
of matter, is unable to keep up a balance of forces. 

Hence the enternal expansive power, bursts through 
the crust of the surface and lets out a flood of melted lava 
upon the surface under this ring, a belt of nebulous mat- 
ter, and the excessive heat going up or out, from this hot 
mass shooting its fiery breath through this circle far 
out into space, charges the "spot" in the circle over the 
lava, very hot and positive. This causes it to scatter and 
a seperation of the ring over the flood of hot lava, and 
charges each end of the broken ring very positive which 
quickly repels from each other, while the opposite side of 
the ring becomes equally negative and attracts. This 
causes the belt to roll up each way around the circle, and 
come togather again on the opposite side from where it 
broke like the rolling of a scroll, producing a nebulous 
planet, or moon to be born into existence, and chronicled 
by its parent center. 

This nebular planet, by inherent laws, attracts into a 
globular form, aud remains one side to its parent center, 
it does not yet move on its axis, from the fact it has none 
formed. 

After coming into globular form upon one side of its 
parent center, it will then be repelled further from its par- 
ent than where the ring was, from which it was formed, 
caused by its concentrated positive state, and from the in- 
creased heat it has accumulated in rolling together. 

Here it remains in a similar condition as our moon 
does to our earth, while another belt begins to form around 
in a similar condition and place as the first one. 

I have thus far shown by what law and how all matter 
is thus formed into suns, planets, moons or satellites, and 
by this same law all planets or suns that exist in our so- 
lar system and all others through the immensity of space 
have been formed. 

For further illustrating their future development I will 
now take our present moon to this planet, and when I ex- 
plain that, and its motions and growth, by the same pro- 
cess all other planitary bodies can be illustrated and ex- 
plained, 



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Our present moon is yet the first that our earth has 
produced, it was produced from a belt of nebula, in and 
by the same laws above described, and ever since has re- 
mained with its face toward our earth. And from the 
positive action of our earth upon its face, the face has be- 
come charged positive and in the future will become its 
positive pole, while the back side of the moon is equally 
dark and negative, and in the future will become its nega- 
tive or attractive pole. This is the way by which all of 
the polarities are first formed in all placets or moons 
which are thrown from their parent center. 

Our north pole of this planet once faced our sun, in 
like condition, and remained so until the next planet 
Venus from the sun was produced, when it was repelled 
further off and was made to shift its position, as at pres- 
ent, and to depend upon its own polarities, and its axis 
or rotary motion then began. 

And at the birth of our next planet unto our solar sys- 
tem from the sun (which I claim will take place on the 
26th day of Jan. 1889, of which I shall speak more here- 
after.) Yet another moon will then be born from this 
planet from a belt of nebulous matter now surrounding 
this earth, making the second moon to this earth, and as 
the second moon will move in its orbit nearer to the sur- 
face of the earth than our present moon, it will be car- 
ried along by the rapid currents of our earth, whose sur- 
face velocity is over one thousand miles an hour, and 
as it passes between our earth and our present moon, it 
will have a repellent influence upon our moon, which will 
repel the positive side now toward our earth, carrying 
our first moon still further from this planet, as if it 
were weaning it from nursing at its mother's breast, where 
it has been ever since its birth, and causing it to move 
alone or to depend upon its own polarities for support. 

As its former ties of relationship to our mother earth 
is then broken, new relations must be formed, as the 
younger moon now has the best claim to the position, the 
older moon is at this time repelled further from the earth, 
and in its passage, it awakes from its former nursing 
slumbers to depend upon its own polarities. 

And as the side now to the earth is positive, it will be 
attracted naturally toward the south pole of this earth, 
and as the back side of the moon is negative it will at- 
tract to the north, or positive pole of our earth. Hence 



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in its transition it will turn and take that position rela- 
tive to this earth, leaving the line which has been formed, 
between the positive and negative side to stand as its 
equator does to our sun, or parent center. 

This change will be caused by the birth of a new planet 
into our solar system on Jan. 26th 1889 from a belt, or 
ring of nebula matter, now surrounding the sun, which 
is the cause of spots being seen upon the sun at various 
times, as this belt is thicker in some places than others, 
in the belt it looks like spots upon the sun, by our astron- 
omers, and at times is in great commotion.' 

This birth, or breaking of a belt around the sun will 
be produced at that time from still another cause, viz : 
It is a well known fact known by most astronomers that 
our sun is revolving around another central sun (Pleaides), 
and that as our solar system is thus being whirled through 
space, and about every two thousand years it passes other 
solar systems which belong to other centers than our own 
central sun, in passing, it causes a general friction up- 
on our solar system, which feels its magnetism from its 
near proximity, which charges the whole solar system to 
activity as it were with its elements, and at a conjunction 
of the planets in our solar system at that time, there will 
be a great pressure back upon the sun causing this belt 
of nebula to break, caused by the bursting of the sun's 
crust, and the discharge of a large amount of lava to be 
discharged upon its surface, near its equator, the heat 
going up or out from this will scatter and break this belt, 
forming a new planet in our solar system, upon the same 
law, as given above, the approximation to this event will 
produce more or less a Spiritual Era, on this planet both 
before and after this takes place to all those the most sen- 
sitive, both on this planet and all the rest of the solar 
system. 

This may be seen by looking back upon our own his- 
tory, that about every eigtheen hundred or two thousand 
years we have a Spiritual quickening or enlightenment of 
a few hundred years, then a dark or negative age, until 
the next two thousand come around, or until we pass an- 
other solar system, when the Spiritual element or age will 
again become quickened, as at the present time. 

As a natural consequence, when this belt of matter 
around the sun breaks and rolls together, forming another 
planet in our solar system, thus removing, as it were, a 



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veil betwixt us and the sun, which veil has been thick- 
ening up ever since the last planet in our solar system 
was formed, and gradually cooling off each planet in our 
solar system, causing them to become more negative, and 
as they become more negative, they attract near and still 
nearer the sun, as may be known by our own earth in its 
transit of Venus, measuring some nine millions of miles 
nearer the sun now than it did some seventy-five years 
ago. I would say that the removing of this veil or belt 
from the sun, will cause a great commotion on this and 
all other planets in our solar system. The sudden and 
excessive heat from the sun will cause the vapors to arise 
from this earth, producing a dark appearance of the sun, 
and the moon will look as red as blood, while the crust 
of the earth will tremble and shake in an awful condi- 
tion, while the aurora borealis from the north pole will 
send its luried flames over the thick vapor, producing 
one of the most awful sights to behold that was ever wit- 
nessed, caused by internal heat and excessive friction 
through the earth center, causing earthquakes continually 
in its passage, while the earth is being repelled. Several 
millions of miles further from the sun, to the people on 
other planets our earth will appear like a comet, with its 
fiery tail of hot atmosphere in the rear. I have had a 
panoramic vision of the whole process shown me on the 
26th of Aug., 1867, which I had published in pamphlet 
form, and sent five hundred of them, some to most of the 
nations of the earth, which, as far as I can learn, had 
but a slight effect upon the inhabitants. 

This great effect to be produced upon our solar sys- 
tem at that time, has long been foretold by ancient 
prophets and seers, but by the translation of the scrip- 
tures, by uninspired and interested men, (who had some 
selfish point to gain, it has been translated from ten to 
sixteen times over,) it comes to us shorn of its original 
clearness, and somewhat vague and uncertain in many of 
its main points, by so doing. Also by trying to establish 
the idea of a " personal god," who controlls and oversees 
all with his vindictiveness and cruelty, and by his special 
providence, according to their own ideas of what a per- 
sonal god should be, which I repudiate entirely, in place 
of the " laws in nature," which are always just and rea- 
sonable. I say this false translation has mixed it up, so 
that it has lost its original meaning, and comes to us in a 



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garbled form, and entangled with a " score of doctrinal 
dogmas " that lead us astray from the original meaning. 

But suffice it to say that u the Day of Judgment," as it 
is falsely called, is believed in by all the nations of the 
earth, to come at about this time, and many days have 
been set for its appearance, and passed by since 1843, 
and yet other days have been set to come in 1881 and in 
1884 or thereabouts. I have not made any calculations 
on the time myself, and know nothing about it, except as 
the date was given me by the Angel in my vision, which 
fixed it upon the 26th of January, 1889. The Angel 
claimed that it would not have been wise, had the true 
time been given before. Therefore I know not myself, 
but verily believe it will come at that time. And from 
various communications from my guardians, viz : Sir 
Wm. Herschell, Emanuel Sweedenborg, Brahma and 
Plato, all coroborating the statement made to me by the 
Angel. 

.Now in regard to the changes that our earth has passed 
through, from the time when it was a moon to the sun, 
or in other words, the youngest planet in the solar sys- 
tem. As before stated, the positive pole was toward the 
sun, where the most positive minerals attracted in the 
formation of the first land that appeared upon the sur- 
face. Here, after long ages had rolled their course, then 
appeared the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, and after 
that the animals in their grossest forms, among them the 
elephant, the mastodon and similar gross species, all en- 
joying a tropical climate, while their country was facing 
the sun ; but, alas ! for them a change must come. As the 
next planet was born from a nebula belt from the sun, 
our earth was cut loose from its nursing position to the 
sun, as it were to depend upon its own polarities. Hence 
it was repelled several millions of miles further from the 
sun, and then turned one quarter of the way around, that 
is, the side that had faced the sun was turned to the 
south, or negative pole to the sun, while the back or op- 
posite side from the sun as it had formerly been placed, 
being negative, was now attracted to the sun's north or 
positive pole. This change was detrimental to the ele- 
phant and mastodon, as well as all the animal kingdom, 
which had been born and bred in a tropical climate, for 
the earth to swing one quarter the way around, leaving 
them in an entirely different climate. Still the excessive 



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heat that must have been produced from the north pole, 
after the great excitement of the earth in being repelled 
so far from the sun, for a time kept them warm enough, 
but as this heat gradually cooled off, they began to suffer 
with cold as well as from their former plenteous growth 
of vegetables. As the sun went around them now, very 
low down in the horizon ; as ages moved on they began 
to conform in their natures to the change, and one gene- 
ration after another began to have more hair, and as the 
last possible chance of sustaining life from cold and hun- 
ger had left them, they died in the snow-drifts and ice- 
bergs, and left their bodies where we find them in this 
age, embedded in perpetual snow, with their bodies cov- 
ered with a long thick growth of hair, as nature was try- 
ing as fast as she could to conform them to these con- 
ditions. 

And various animals, in attempting to migrate to war- 
mer regions nearer the equator, have died on their way, 
and we now find their bones all over the country, even 
here in Michigan several have been found, which, from 
a scientific calculation, must have been 22 feet high, 
they had tusks 9J inches in diameter and nine feet and 
eight inches long, embedded in the ground seven feet 
under the surface. 

There is even reason to believe that the effects of this 
belt of matter forming around the sun and suppressing the 
sun's heat, is the cause of the north pole regions gradually 
growing colder and colder and nearer and nearer the 
equator every age, and our seasons are gradually chang- 
ing in conformity to the great fact, and will until after 
the birth of the next planet, when a great change will 
take place. The icebergs will then be melted away and 
a warm fertile country will then cover two thirds of the 
lands, which now are cold and worthless for farming pur- 
poses. 

And I make the assertion that all the earthquakes 
that we have any history of, have been caused by a shrink- 
ing of the earths crust and not by expansion. Every 
phenomena of earth's changes, will prove this when right- 
ly interpreted, according to the laws in nature. The sur- 
face is constantly changing, and the streams of water 
change in conformity with it. At one time the Missis- 
sippi River was over nine miles wide and from one to 
two hundred feet deep, along the Illinois bank, now it is 



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about 80 rods wide, 10 to 20 feet deep, with nice farms 
on its bottom lands, where was once a surging torrent. 
LakeMichigan once emptied into the Mississppi but from a 
north or eastern shrinkage of the earth, it changed its 
course, and now finds outlet through Lake Erie and 
down the Niagara, whose falls have worn their way back 
some seven miles to their present location. 

Grand Eiver was once a mile wide and a hundred feet 
deep, at Grand Rapids, Mich., but now it is only about 
a thousand feet wide, and can be forded easily in the dry 
season of the year. Still the marks of its former dimen- 
tions on its banks are yet too plain for dispute of its for- 
mer greatness. 

Thus all the changes are being brought about by a 
gradual process, and their effects are creeping along upon 
us by degrees. And as the earth is now becoming more 
clammy and cold, its productions are in like proportion. 
New insects as well as old ones, are constantly on the in- 
crease from these conditions. Among these may be 
mentioned, the grasshopper, potato and chinch bugs, spi- 
ders and flies, small and very insects, which we called 
anamahula of every description, producing new and more 
dangerous diseases from their entering our system, by the 
water we drink and most all kinds of food. All these 
causes conspire to become a national calamity, and will 
continue to grow worse and worse until another planet 
is born from the sun, causing such positive conditions on 
the earth, that they cannot exist. That change will puri- 
fy the earth of all its grossness, then the earth will bud 
and blossom like the rose, and earth shall rejoice in its 
purity and man in his healthy condition, when sickness, 
sorrow, pain and death shall be felt and feared no more, 
and the Angels our constant and visible companions. 
It is really the good time coming, but our priests who 
claim to be so full of God, and orthodoxy, have tried to 
turn Gods blessing into a curse by claiming a personal 
God, and personal devil, and a local hell filled with brim- 
stone on fire to burn to all eternity. This hell they say 
some of them is paved with the skull bones of infants, 
not a span long, a place where God and his mercy con- 
demns them to burn to all eternity, and cannot die, a place 
where 99 out every hundred must suffer, just because 
they cannot believe this jargon of nonsense to any rea- 
soning mind, as they preach it. If the world would spend 



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half as much time and money to investigate the laws in 
nature, for one year they would soon find out, that this 
nonsense taught by churches are whithout one real thread 
of truth in them. That they are the " myths " and fa- 
bles of the dark ages, and will not stand the light of 
truth and " science " for an hour, before they would all 
fade away like a June frost before the mid-day sun. 

But they think they have a fast hold on the minds of 
the people, and a good fat situation and salary, and they 
must keep up the delusion, and gain proselytes or their 
chance for bread and butter and yellow-legged chickens, 
will be gone to that place where God keeps his sulphur, 
and they will have to plant and hoe corn for a living, and 
blister their delicate hands for daily bread, for they have 
found out long since that God won't give it to them with- 
out honest toil, to produce it. Hence they live on the 
toil of the honest poor, who they delude into this belief, 
that they must believe in them or God will doom them 
to spend eternity amid the burning sulphur and lava-beds, 
which they preach and which science is fast doing away 
with. 

Now in regard to the cause of our seasons, or the rock- 
ing motion of our earth, in regard to its relative position 
to the sun : In the first place, it should be understood 
that our sun revolves around another sun, or center, that 
it takes 24000 years to form the circuit that this great 
central sun sends off into space, a powerful influence that 
holds our sun in its order, on the plan above given and 
that at every revolution of our earth around the sun, one 
half of the year our earth must be traveling, as it were 
up stream, against this positive current from this great 
center, and as two positives repel each other, our north 
is repelled back by this current, while the south pole 
being negative is attracted by this current, hence is drawn 
forward for six months while traveling up against this 
current from the great center. This causes our "Eclip- 
tic" or oblong circle around the sun, while the repulsion 
of the north pole and the attraction of the south pole at 
each revolution changes the position of our earth's relation 
to the sun, making our seasons, while it gives us our 
"Ecliptic" circle around the sun, and is the cause of our 
earth being repelled back so near the sun in the winter, 
and so far from the sun in the summer, when our weath- 
er is the warmest. 



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This breaking of the next belt being on the 26th of 
January, 1889, will bring our earth at nearly its nearest 
point to the sun. 

CAUSE OF LIFE IN NEBULA PLANETS. 

Nature always provides bountifully in all her works for 
the production of all her species. As we have before said, 
that there was inherent life in every particle of matter, how- 
ever small, still law governs every part of nature, in the 
birth of planets, as in the birth of animals, everything is fur- 
nished in nature according to its present and future needs. 

Before a planet is born, the parent from which it is 
born being surrounded by the belt of nebula, by suppres- 
sing the sun's rays, causing an impure surface, as in the 
case of our earth at the present time. It developes on 
its surface every kind of monas, mould, and gross 
animel life in its primary stage to exist in great abun- 
dance. This at the time of removal of this earth by the 
power of heat on the planet within, which is then pro- 
duced. It is thrown up in the atmosphere and carried by 
the positive and negative currents to the equator where 
it is impregnated with the two batteries, and is repelled 
from the earth to the belt of nebula over the equator 
which goes to form the coming planet from this earth 
and produce all the life germs, which will eventually de- 
velop, on this its child, all the various kinds of life to be 
found on the mother planet up to human life. 

Hence wisdom is seen, as necessarily producing our sick- 
ly atmosphere, as at present, for the benefit of that which 
is to follow in the next planet, thus all the inherent quali- 
ties of the first planet are transmitted from one planet to 
another down the parental line, causing all to bring forth 
the same fruit eventually through its several kingdoms. 
Although for a time there may be a difference owing to 
its peculiar stage of development still the general result will 
be the same. Thus all the primary elements are trans- 
mitted, infusing life, in and through all, for all time to 
come in all planets, and all germs will lay dorment until 
the various stages of development will call them forth in 
their regular order, one after another in the different 
ages to follow. 

Perhaps I have not explained sufficient plain to some 
minds the cause of the axle motion of planets, as planets 
are repelled further off, at the birth of the 2nd planet, 



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and have to depend upon their own polarities, they then 
begin their axle or rotary motion, by the parent center, 
shining upon one side which makes that side positive for 
the time- being and the dark side equally negative. Now 
the central planet around which they are to revolve, re- 
pels the positive side, while at the same time it attracts 
the negative side, thus alternately it keeps the planet 
rolling and cannot stop, the positive side as soon as it gets 
in the shade becomes negative, and visa versa with the 
negative side, this forms a perpetual moiion as seen in the 
motions of all planets around their various centers. 

CAUSE OF SPOTS UPON THE SUN, MAGNETIC STOEMS, PRO- 
DUCING THE AUEOEA BOREALIS, OR 
NOETHEEN LIGHTS. 

In regard to the above subjects I would give my opin- 
ion in accordance with the teachings I receive from my 
teachers from the other world. 

This belt of nebula which now surrounds the sun, 
moves along around the sun, and is carried along by its 
currents, but how fast I cannot say, perhaps one or two 
million miles an hour. As I have before said, there is 
some places in this belt much thinner, for the time being, 
than at other places. The matter composing this belt 
being in a nebula or cloudy form, and is easily disturbed, 
by any disturbance of the suns surface. In the few years 
last past, as our solar system is nearing another solar sys- 
tem, which belongs to another grand system, other than 
ours, and small eruptions begin to appear on the suns' 
surface, as yet small, and not being large enough to break 
the whole belt, still they occasion a commotion in the 
circle and produce openings through which the sun sends 
rays with great force, striking our earth. These are 
called magnetic storms, the effect of which are well under- 
stood on earth's surface, viz: That whenever they occur, 
simulataneous with them there is an Arora Borealis or 
northern lights, that is, when these rays from the sun strike 
our earth they are caught up in an instant and carried by 
earths currents in at the south pole, and through the cen- 
ter of the earth, and out at the north pole, probably in 
one or two minutes they make the entire circuit. The 
friction that they engender in passing through the earth 
causes a corresponding heat and light to appear at the 



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north pole, and proves my theory of these earth currents, 
as before stated. 

It is this electric current over the earth that governs 
the magnetic needle, and the clashing of these currents 
in coming together at the equator is what causes the nee- 
dle to vary and swing in all directions until you sail past 
it. 

In regard to these subjects, philosophers and astrono- 
mers have much more to forget than to learn. For the 
truth is easy and simple with the above key to explain it 
with, it is easy to learn, and there need be no confusion 
of ideas. But the trouble with them will be to forget 
the former errors, as taught by popular authors, to which 
they hold in dear reverence and esteem, while they choke 
and strangle at every step in trying to swallow their theo- 
ries because they have not the boldness or mechanism 
to invent and publish a better one. 

As I only propose here to give a short synopsis of the 
main facts, I connot be expected now to go into details 
of a thousand other subjects which bear heavily upon 
my mind, of which I hope soon to write out in detail 
somewhat, showing that every known motion in all the 
heavenly bodies of our solar system and all phenomena 
of every name or nature. In regard to any and 
all productions of the earth, and the order in which 
they come through all the different kingdoms and of every 
fact known to exist in regard to them, can all be reason- 
ably explained upon this hypothesis of God in Nature. 
It is truly the " keys to the kingdoms " and I defy all the 
teachers in theology, philosophy and astronomy to break 
down a single inch of it. 

I will now give the vision before spoken of, it was 
given in conformity to the foregoing philosophy and hy- 
pothesis. 



VISION OF AUGUST 26, 1867. 



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As given to Dr. E. Woodruff. 



On Aug. 26, 1867, at half past two in the morning, while 
I lay in my bed, at the back part of my office in a calm 
wakeful state, an Angel appeared to me who said he 
wished to show me things shortly to come to pass, and 
give me the precise time when they should come, I was 
to all appearance caught up many miles above the sur- 
face of the earth. 

He says, behold and observe well what I am about to 
show you, write it down and proclaim it unto the people. 
I looked and I beheld the last days, when our present 
system of time should end, and a new system of time be- 
gin, it seemed that my vision covered the whole earth at 
one glance. , 

It seemed that a new planet (from a belt of nebula mat- 
ter which now surrounds the sun) had been born into our 
solar system from the sun, and that the extreme heat 
from the rays of the sun, (now unobstructed), had charged 
the earth very positive, and that our earth was being re- 
pelled much farther from the sun, in common with the 
whole solar system, and that the starry heavens was fast 
fleeing away, no more to be seen as at present. As our 
earth passed away and left them, the positive state 
of our earth threw up into the air, its vapors, which pro- 
duced a very thick murky atmosphere, so much so, that 
the sun was darkened and the moon looked as red as 
blood. I stood speachless in his presence as the awful 
panorama passed before my eyes. An awful trembling 
shook the earth, from center to circumference, earthquakes 
rent the earth in diverse places, almost continually. 

The atmosphere was in a blaze caused by the aurora 
borelias from the north pole, bursting volcanos spouted 
high in the air, with melted lava from the bowels of the 
earth, while the ashes from their craters filled the air, 



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sweeping tornadoes passed over the earth in diverse places 
filling the air with huge fragments of debris matter. 
Many buildings fell to the ground and many large bodies 
of water changed their location, caused by the upheaval 
of the earth where they were. And the iceburgs of the 
north pole melted away, causing terrible floods in some 
places. An immense volume of lava was poured out of 
the earth in Australia flowing westward a part upon the 
sea and a part upon the land, destroying about ninety 
thousand inhabitants. 

The immense heat which assended from this lake of 
fire scattered and broke a belt of nebula matter, which 
now surrounds the earth, which has been collecting since 
our present moon was formed and the hot and fiery ends 
of this belt being positive, were quickly repelled from 
each other and rolled apart around this circle and came 
together again on the opposite side of where they broke, 
which was negative to it, causing a great noise, and it 
formed another moon to this planet, and our present moon 
was repelled further off from this planet, caused by its 
positive condition and only looked about half as large, as 
usually and its brightness was increased twofold. And 
as the younger moon passed between it and this earth, 
the strong currents of the elements set it (the older moon) 
into a rolling motion and its positive face now to this 
earth, was attractedto the south, and the backside to the 
north, as it took its relative position to this earth. 

The inhabitants of the earth were frantic, and pros- 
trated upon the earth, screaming and praying, and call- 
ing upon God to save them from the awful wrath of his 
judgment ; terrible blackness covered the earth, andhor- 
ible despair, beyond all description, enshrouded every 
countenance, many died of fright, and many from falling 
buildings, some from tornadoes, and many more drowned 
from the changing waters. But another portion was bet- 
ter prepared for this awful day, and stood as it were 
calmly waiting for it to pass by. Having had foreknowl- 
edge of this great event and of its effects upon the earth, 
their smiling faces were turned heavenward, and praised 
the angels for giving them strength for this awful hour. 
I shuddered as I beheld, and made efforts to speak. The 
angel then turned to me and said, now for the first time 
on this planet shall the true time be given for this great 
and terrible day of the Lord to appear, for it hath not 



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been wise, that this revelation should have been made 
before. And it shall begin in twenty-one years and five 
months from this day, (on the twenty-sixth day of Janu- 
ary, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, (1889) 
and it shall last twenty-one days, of terrible, yea, most 
terrible excitement. Then the heavens shall begin to 
clear, and your atmosphere become purer, until in a short 
time the new heavens and the new and renovated earth 
shall appear, purified and fitted for the celestial reign, 
when Christ's new government shall descend from heaven 
and reign triumphantly upon the earth, as it shall pre- 
viously be given through chosen vessels. But before all 
this a great change shall come over the inhabitants of 
your earth. Governments and kingdoms shall fall to rise 
no more, while new and better governments shall arise in 
their places. Famine, pestilence and wars shall sweep 
over the earth, and remove many. Many new and most 
terrible diseases shall appear, caused by the gross state of 
your atmosphere. Agitation after agitation shall stir up 
the people, preparatory for the great change, which must 
soon come to all nations, kindred and tongues upon your 
planet. 

All these things with their effects swiftly flitted before 
my vision, and made a deep impression upon my inner 
soul. I appeared to see the new condition of things as 
they existed, and the great and glorious change which 
had taken place, with a new system of time as then con- 
structed. I was fully awake to outer consciousness, but 
could not speak. As the vision closed to my external 
sight, he said to me, now haste to your desk and write it 
down as you have been made to understand it, and in a 
short time I will come to you again, and give it to you in 
a still clearer and in a broader sense. 

Immediately I left my bed and went to my desk in my 
office and hastily sketched the awful vision, while he 
stood by me to witness each word, and to correct my er- 
rors as I hurriedly wrote the contents of what he had 
shown me, he then departed, and I then went to my room 
to ponder the awfulness of this terrible scene which I had 
witnessed and how my vision and thought had so rapidly 
extended over so much scenery in so short a time, I 
looked at my watch and it was not yet three o'clock in 
the morning. 

Dr. Elmer Woodruff. 



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As I have before said the vision of the 26th of August, 
1867 was published in a pamphlet and five thousand scat- 
tered over the world. 

Mr. B. T. Bailey of Oswego, N. J., whom I have never 
seen, obtained one of them and submitted it to Sir Wm. 
Herschell the grand astronomer, through a medium to get 
Mr. HerschelPs opinion on the subject as to the fact of 
the occurrence and the time set for it to come, and the 
following is his reply of which Mr. Baily kindly furnished 
me a copy. 

SIR WM. HERSHELl/s REPLY OF MARCH 19TH, 1875. 

My beloved associate in the pilgrimage of inevitable 
destiny and expansion of divine and immaculate faculties. 
I welcome you to the halls of spiritual investigation and 
observation which we, your heavenly friends have long 
before you enjoyed, and desired to proffer and open to 
you, as our willing pupil of those solar phenomena? which 
you have often desired to study with scientific accuracy 
and certain effect for that supreme use which you con- 
template, and which you are amply endowed to entertain 
and exercise. 

I am your friend indeed, and desire to declare in your 
favor to assist you whenever you seek my aid, instruction, 
or influence. I have been the companion of whoever has 
desired my friendship and advantages since I left the 
world of my earlier investigations, and the gentleman al- 
so of whom you inquire. 

I will give you a few lines which I should be willing 
you should send to time, on authority as your friend and 
his companion in those solar stellar studies. I can give 
you an outline sketch only in the brevity you solicit of the 
movement of the sun toward the purification of a new 
world and its attendant suffering and purification. In the 
first place let me advise you that the being in whom, and 
ot whom are all things of this particular solar company, 
of which we are human members and co-partner associates, 
are about to preside at a feast whose invited guests are 
not members of this system only, but will be gathered 
in to witness and to participate in the shooting forth of 
the new fruit from parental stem, unto the vast field of 
light and summer heat, prepared to involve and receive 
and nourish in its advent from the most distant points of 
acquaintance and relationship. 



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He will not be alone in the awful undertaking which 
will precipitate so much of terror unto the very souls of 
those who are not prepared for so unlocked for an oc- 
currence, notwithstanding all the admonitions advanced 
long years ago to urge every willing listener to be ready 
to welcome it. 

In that hour, when all things are ready, for so vast an 
ingathering and so holy and royal a supper, the pow- 
ers of the heaven will be shaken by those well able to say 
thus far, and no farther, and in all the grandure of the 
most scientific exactitude, embodied in the very bosom 
of that heart, so august and so worthy. The event will 
take place without one atom of dissention or one error 
of evolution. 

And the young world will be ushered into its orbit, 
from the midst of the accompanying sons of heaven, who 
are its parentage, its gods and demigods, amid the 
hussahs and exclamations of that numerous assemblage, 
gathered to witness and assist in the midwifery of the 
heavenly mother's son from which your earth was similar- 
ly born and chronicled. This sun is but a nucleous of 
souls in their brightness and their majesty, who have long 
desired and contemplated both the conception, gestation 
and birth of this new and more magnificent orb, as well 
as a participation in the glorious re-union of the 
universe over an occasion of so great a rejoicing that the 
most glorious conceivable beings even hasten to the cele- 
bration of a new born world, with joy, assistance and 
thanksgiving. 

You, my friend, are one of those invited guests, and 
will be well prepared to participate in its wonderful de- 
velopment, and manifestations of talent and hilarity. 

Not very many from your earth are yet ready to receive 
the tidings, or administer a return of joy at the summons. 
We have been sent not indeed against our will, to stir 
within your breast a refulgent interest in this natal anni- 
versary, and a glad reply to the well-timed notes of the 
Hierarchs of humanity, multiplied to all those who are 
willing to be present. 

The birth itself is a necessity of the divine mind, for 
another place of exhibition, for another bud from the 
great tree, put forth to blossom in the arms of the centu- 
ries, and the warmth of the encompassing angels; an event 
of so much juy to us, is indeed deplorable to a large ma- 



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jority of the denizens of your and similarly conditioned 
earths. They are not ready, they give no welcome, but 
already do they cast up a great cloud of despair and ter- 
ror from the womb of hell, at the coming of the " Son of 
Man." 

But a people so derelict and so uncharitable can have 
no human interest or satisfaction in an event which gath- 
ers them to one place, where they cannot disturb the fes- 
tivities of millions of congregated saviors, and can no 
more interfere with the progress and fruitfulness of your 
own and other earths. 

Then indeed wUl the wilderness burst forth into 
flowers, and the re-united fraternities of the higher 
worlds looking down upon you, and waiting with eager- 
ness to taste the realities, and the regenerated atmos- 
phere and materials of your acrid earth, will join in a 
new magnificence and outgrowth long before heralded, 
and as long unknown to your sin beladen earth. 

The place and position assigned to those who from 
your w T orld at this day are destined to bear a part in the 
enormous outlay of power and exhibition of glory and 
congratulation. Multitudes will be appointed and desig- 
nated simultaneously as they are able to be instructed, 
and brought into harmony and intimacy. 

Our designs as instructors and promulgators of these 
sublime manifestations, will be unfolded to you and to 
others in such gradual, but sure and satisfactory meth- 
ods, and frequency and fulness of detail, as will enable 
you to rely fully upon those who are capable, even more 
than myself, of giving assurance of correct knowledge 
and ability to demonstrate the facts of this unparalleled 
future, as well as to perform as assistants. The inten- 
tions of those supreme governors who will preside at this 
final and faithful conjugation of the superior sphere with 
the sublinary planets that have so long revolved alone, 
reconjugated and unmindful of those divine spheres wait- 
ing to be celestially annexed in their solemn marriage, 
that they may be one, is the universal prayer of the stel- 
lar universe, and the spontaneous springing forth of every 
human inhabitant of those unnumbered habitations. 

The house of many mansions is now about to be filled 
with those invited to the mighty wedding feast. We 
would that none should be absent. But how can they be 
worthy who reject the announcement with scorn, and like 



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the five foolish virgins provide no oil of joy in their mis- 
erable lamps, whose wisdom and whose brightness have 
alike expired? But our wisdom is full, in being able to 
find in the hedges of obscurity, and in the highways of 
watchful angels, the vessels of our choice and the revered 
objects of our delight. With hearts surcharged and over- 
running with heavenly pleasure, we meet with those we 
can expostulate with, and attract to the lofty theme of 
reproductive energy, and indescribable beauty and dis- 
cernableness. Let my own beloved class-mate of celes- 
tial observation and exploration of these mighty subjects 
henceforth engross your attention even to the entire ex- 
clusion of inferior inquiries and engagements, that you 
may be the sooner free to move with us into those purer 
regions of thought and unfathomable light and love, for 
which you are daily preparing, and which your hourly 
attendants are both persuading and stimulating you to 
accept, as your own privilege and joy, as your own divine 
birthright and emolument. 

Be not in any wise discouraged at the immensity of 
these proposed appearances, as if they were not those very 
same realities which the sages, the seers, and the saviors 
of all times have foretold and declared, should some time 
arrive. Shrink not my friend from attaching yourself to 
him, who has announced himself as the wisdom, the pow- 
er and the glory and the same time the cause and creator 
of the scarcely looked for sublime effects of that eloquent 
hierarch who speaks to your ear so often those syllables of 
warning and encouragement that are no less divine than 
sincere and genuine, as I myself will testify before all 
men and will shortly demonstrate to you, from my privi- 
leges of observation and scientific foresight which have 
been so amply granted to me by the divine lawgiver and 
affectionate counsellor and coagutant to all the perfor- 
mances made known so lately to yourself to be manifes- 
ted in the unimaginable labyrinth of his coeval womb of 
fire. 

You may regard me as ever yours, and as now most 
sincerly present. 

Sir Wm. Herschell. 

A few words in regard to the natural results of these 
last days which must follow, as effect follows cause. 
While the earth is under this, its deepest shadow from 



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the sun causing such a negative condition on the earth's 
surface, the cause of which is as above described. The 
earth is becoming more and still more negative, causing 
impurities to gather in the atmosphere thicker and thick- 
er, producing diseases, yellow fever and various pestilence 
which will sweep over the earth in a still worse form for 
the next eleven years, or until after 1889. This is a 
natural result of these conditions it produces in earth, 
water and air, an anamalcular or very small living ani- 
mals which are all on the rapid increase, and every where 
we breath and drink them into our system, and eat them 
in our food. Man's mind is in harmony with his body, 
is the product of the same, and it is being rapidly 
acted out every day, his animal brain is being fed with 
them, his amitiveness, destructiveness, combativeness 
and his acquisitiveness and his whole back brain is con- 
trolling him. His intellectual and spiritual organs are 
becoming slaves to his animal brain under these condi- 
tions. It proves itself a truth every day of our lives, the 
devil (or positive element) is loosed for a little season, 
as prophesied of by ancient seers and you have only to pick 
up a daily paper and read from them their bill of fare 
which they serve up for you daily, of murders, rapes, 
fights, thefts and all kinds of dishoniesty, from the Presi- 
dent down to constable all have broken their trusts, and 
robbed their constituents in a most heartless manner. 

No man can be trusted in the church or out of it, give 
him an inch and he will take an ell. Deception and fraud 
is the motto with all, the holy church is not an exception, 
they are being swallowed up by pride and the fashions of the 
lewd dames of Prance in most every particular of both 
dress and actions. Thus priests are falling one after 
another like the tall oaks of the forest, their minds have 
caught the disease, they have become rotten at the butt, 
while their heads are green, very " green " 

Tell me not that these are the last days prophesied of 
in the bible, where it says : There shall come a falling 
away first; can we have a worse falling away, can we have 
a worse state of rotteness. We are commanded to watch 
and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. Who is there 
on the watch, who does not fall under temptation; none, 
all are asleep with the oil all out of their lamps, and they 
are in moral darkness, and they do not discern the signs 
of the times. Get ye up my people and come out from 



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among them, trim your lamps, and be ready for his com- 
ing. Look at the signs of the times, investigate them 
well, lay aside your selfish idols, be not deceived, his 
coming is at hand, even at the door and his prophesied 
signs precede him, arise ! for the sake of your own selfish 
souls arise ! and trim your lamps of perceptions, can you 
not see rottenness on every side of you, are you blind to 
it and its cause, if so, may God and angels have mercy 
on your blindness and give you light. 

Go back to history in any age and you cannot find it 
so black with the treachery as at the present. I have 
here explained the cause and can you not see its effects, 
it floats in the air and it requires a great effort to be pure. 
The very men you have set apart to be pure, among them 
are the rottenest eggs in the nest. 

Seek the truth, investigate closely the causes and the 
principles that I here lay before you. They will bear 
your criticisms, although written through an unlearned 
medium and expressed through his untutored language, 
yet it is the best I can do. His mind is free from pre- 
conceived ideas on the subject and I leave it with you to 
clothe these ideas with language to suit your pleas- 
ure, the truth is what I want to give you, investigate and 
follow through these pages from cause to effect and see 
if they are true to natural laws. Despise not the day of 
small things and small books,notice closely this synopsis of 
law and principle and you will find that they are Gods laws 
and in accordance with Gods principle of truth. If you 
find this you will see they must be true, for natures laws 
never contradict themselves. 

Galileo who fears not the world's scorn, would give his 
word of approval to that which is above given : 

Although I struggled through your world to establish 
the truth as then I saw it, and now I have to talk through 
two mediums to say what I do, in confirmation of the 
above philosophy, prophesy and vision, given by Sir Wm. 
Herschell, and hope it will reach the minds of the peo- 
ple, and be received more directly than my former teach- 
ings for the truth they contain. 

Galileo. 



APPENDIX. 



A Few Scattering Remarks. 



Man is the ultimate of the universe, and will become 
gods and demi-gods in his future development in the 
same ratio with the earth's development ; he can go no 
faster, nor stay behind. We are the growth of the planet, 
and like the trees of the forest, must obey the conditions 
of the planet on which we live. We are governed by 
laws, and to obey them we must understand them. They 
are Gods laws, not written in a book called the Bible, as 
taught to us at the present time. Yet even the Bible 
has a hidden or inside meaning to come forth at about 
this time in regard to the times in which we live. It is 
an inspired book but purposely written by former astrol- 
ogists in that blind style, so that none could understand 
except they were inspired. It is two-fold, written with- 
in and without ; only the outside is understood; see Rev. 
5th. Its main and only meaning is in regard to the times 
and the seasons. Its main personages named in the book, 
mean time principally or eras, represented by symbols or 
personages, which the priests of the latter days try to 
make you believe means persons, and in this literal read- 
ing of the book try to harmonize as consistent, some of 
the most inconsistent things in the world, but they only 
understand the back-side of the book. But we must take 
a different meaning than that giveu by the theology of 
the age if we want to understand God. We are all look- 
ing too high to find God or good ; we must look at the 
laws manifested in nature, and study science to under • 
stand God, for he is a scientific God, and when we under- 
stand science we shall understand God, for it is the whole 
meaning of the term. God and the Devils are really the 
two great positive and negative principles in nature ; one 
cannot exist without the other, they are co-equal as the 
poles of the earth are. I have already shown you how 



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these principles have created the planets, and the planets 
having been created, and the different kingdoms named 
in their respective order, we will now give a few hints in 
this brief notice of some of the different laws that per- 
vade the different kingdoms. In the mineral kingdom I 
would merely say that it enters into the formation of all 
the kingdoms above, but more especially in the vegeta- 
ble and animal, and are the positive principle in each, 
that is, the lower minerals enter more largely into the 
! lower kingdoms, while the higher minerals enter into the 
higher kingdoms ; they are necessary in the formation of 
each kingdom above them, each kingdom is made up of 
what is below them, or developes up out of it, and pro- 
duce a new kingdom. The mineral kingdom has devel- 
oped the vegetable kingdom. In this kingdom we can 
see the positive and negative principles in various ways 
constantly at work. We can see by the positive and neg- 
ative action of the moon, as governing the growth of 
plants and establishing their character, while the moon 
is bright and positive and the positive currents are run- 
ning downward, it establishes a similar character on all 
vegetation while forming a character ; for instance, in the 
bright of the moon, if you will plant a hill of potatoes, 
their growth is more in the ground and less in the top, 
and a good crop is the result, the downward currents es- 
tablishing the character or extra growth in the ground, 
while if planted in the dark of the moon, the opposite is 
the result, you will get a large growth of vines and a 
small crop of potatoes. If you do not believe the moon 
effects the earth, just look at the tides which are gov- 
erned exclusively by the moon. You can see what power 
it will take to shove up the water from 10 to 16 feet high 
according to the circumstances of the moon, and the 
breadth of water over which it passes. Its effects upon 
vegetation and animals are variously spoken of and no- 
ticed by the height of the tides, by the growth of peas, 
beans and potatoes, also by the effect upon pork by shrink- 
ing and swelling in the pot in being boiled, according to 
the time in the moon it was killed and by the rotting of 
sods, when plowed under in the right time in the moon, 
the sprouting trees and the dying of the leaves on them 
when cut or girdled, and by worms in children, monthly 
courses in women and a thousand other things, all point- 
ing to a science which if understood and acted upon in 



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harmony with the laws of God, all would work well. But 
man is looking too high for the laws of God, under the 
present teachings from his priest, he is like a wild turkey 
in a trap, he is always looking up too high for a place to 
escape, he must learn the first lesson or study the 
lower round in the progressive ladder, or by his mistakes 
he may have to roast in hell at last or suffer by his ignor- 
ance, all caused by his trying to take the highest lesson 
in his progressive career. 

Study up these principles and their application of the 
various kingdoms and you will soon see the mistakes you 
have made in every kingdom in the earth, mineral vege- 
table, animal, human and spiritual. All the laws of God 
have their effects upon man, and the peculiar conditions 
that exist at his birth and enter into his composition 
help to steer his course through life and go to make up 
the character of the man, like the shooting of an arrow, 
a slight variation to start with, (which fools laugh about) 
all tend to make a wide difference of hitting the mark, 
aimed at in life, just because we wont study first princi- 
pels more and their results. We are constantly doing 
things blindly every day and do not ask the reason why, 
or wherefore or what will be the effect of such a course 
of proceeding. Earth is a schoolhouse and he who learns 
the first lesson first will make the best scholar. Ortho- 
doxy is trying to learn man the top round in the progres- 
sive ladder first and man cannot comprehend the awful 
mysteries of God, hence we are constantly stumbling and 
falling and no progress is made. Man should study God 
as he did his arithmetic, commence with the primary 
lessons first and follow on and all will be mastered in turn 
until he arrives at algebra. But the priests are trying to 
learn algebra first and all is mystery ! mystery ! for want 
of understanding first principles. 

God governs the whole universe by law, embracing all 
the kingdoms and you are left to study them all and some 
will succeed in one kingdom better than in another, ac- 
cording to their make up and disposition, and you have 
them all spread out before you to look at and practice 
upon in the lap of nature. They are the laws of God and 
the only laws of God we have and when you have learned 
one, write it down, that some neighbor may learn it also. 
Truth is of God and to become Gods we must learn Gods 
truth, no matter how simple, they are all parts of one 



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stupendtious whole. This is the progressive ladder we 
are all trying to climb, but the whole trouble is we are 
all trying to step on the top round first to comprehend 
God and his laws, it is by degrees that we reach the top, 
we must comprehend the simplest first. 

Its little drops that forms trie rills, 
That trickle down the side of hills, 
To the rivers in whose bosom 
Floats the tide that forms the ocean. 

The priests commence at the ocean first to give lessons 
of God and we cannot comprehend it, but we must com- 
mence at the rills and follow with the current and to 
learn God this way, all is good and pleasant and easy to 
comprehend as a mechanic would say " Work with the 
grain, " and all is well. First understand the great posi- 
tive and negative principles, for this grand rule governs 
every lesson in all the kingdoms above. I will here 
prophesy that in a few years these principles will be ar- 
ranged in regular order, into school books and taught in 
our common schools, beginning at the first primary and 
simplest rules and rising higher and higher until they 
teach how worlds are made and the heavens are studded 
with its brilliance, side by side with Solomon of old. It 
is all so simple if they commence right, but at present 
the minds of this earth are literally crammed with false- 
hoods from the cradle to the grave, and it takes much 
longer to unlearn these first impressions than to learn the 
real truth in the first place. Our chances are poor in this 
world at present for any great improvement, yes, they are 
died in the wool, and are hard to bleach out, you may 
use all the sulpher you please, they are still on the mind 
and will help to hold you down a long time. 

As I have said before, man is the ultimate of the uni- 
verse and moves in his progress with the development of 
the planet and can go no faster. The earth revolves by 
circles, it requires 24 thousand years for our sun to move 
around, or make one circuit around its center or pleiades, 
this time is divided into twelve sections, or times called 
zodiac, commencing with the ancient of days, signified 
by the ram in the picture in the almanac. These two thou- 
sand years zodiac divided into six hundred years, when 
the ancients claimed a savior would be born, or a great 
crisis will be passed. We look eighteen hundred years 
ago and they claim the savior Jesus to be born, six hun- 



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dred years after Jesus, Mahomet came forth which they 
claim to be a savior and six hundred years after Mahomet 
came the Crusade Frienzy, and six hundred years later we 
are again feeling this Spiritualism prevailing the whole 
earth and religious discord everywhere. Mahometism 
falling, Popery falling, Protestantism is putrid with cor- 
ruption, while infidelity, materialism and spiritualism 
are now making rapid strides over Christendom, every- 
thing goes to show that we are about to have an Equinox- 
ial storm on a large scale, as the sun passes the last fish 
gate and enters into the ancient of days. This brings us 
to judgment, but every man will be his own judge, there 
is no personal God to victimise over him. He will find 
a house with many mansions, or spheres upon spheres one 
above another, differing in purity and beauty, from the 
lowest hells to the highest heavens, for I have been in 
them all and I can say that its lowest hells are not below this 
earth in their purity or wickedness, each soul rises one step 
higher on the rounds of the progressive ladder as he en- 
ters the new life. Man grows in purity with the earth, 
from the lowest to the highest, while here the organs 
of his brain is placed in three sections, viz : The ani- 
mal, the intellectual and the spiritual. The two former 
are generally understood. Of the latter, the spiritual, I 
would say : They too have various gifts in order, about as 
follows : 1st the gift of rapping, tipping, speaking, clair- 
auditive, clairvoyance, mechancal, pictorial, writing, per- 
sonating, manipulating, healing, impressional, poetical, 
musical, telegraphing, speaking in tongues, interpreting, 
developing, psycometric, prophesying and faith. This 
comprises the main gifts of the spiritual group of organs 
to be developed and used by man to help him to converse 
with the spirit world above him. 

At the coming of Christ's new governments upon the 
earth, or after the sun crosses the line and emerges into 
the next zodiac, in 1889 we shall have a new and renova- 
ted earth to live on, where sickness, sorrow, pain and 
death is feared no more. Then man will enjoy a new 
world truly, man will find in each sphere or world new 
faculties and gifts according to his progress and ability to 
comprehend them, eternal progress is our motto. Our 
earth stands a good chance with the other planets in our 
solar system. It developes much faster than the older, 
and larger planets and we are but a few thousand years 



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behind the inhabitants of Saturn. It takes thirty and a 
half of our years to make one of theirs, from the fact that 
our earth revolves thirty and one half times faster around 
the sun and we develop in a similar proportion. A child 
on that planet one year old (by their revolution) is not 
progressed more than one a year old on this planet, al- 
though it has existed thirty and one-half times longer, 
they live there to an average of life to be 60 years old (of 
their revolution,) while we average 33 years on this 
planet. The first planets thrown from the sun are large 
and gross, while the last ones are smaller and more re- 
fined, while the time occupied in their formation from the 
nebula around the sun, to the time they produce them, is 
growing shorter and shorter from the first to the last, so 
that when the sun has finished raising his family of plan- 
ets, the children of the last will be equal or ahead of the 
children of the first. As Christ said the last shall be 
first and the first shall be last. 

It seems that the development of the races and king- 
doms depend upon the rotation around the sun and inas- 
much as the last or smaller planets rotate so much faster, 
they excell in like proportion and come out ahead in pro- 
gress at last. The planet Venus is the next younger than 
this earth and its inhabitants are nearer to ours in pro- 
gress. The sun keeps throwing off its grossest matter 
first and each planet is smaller and purer as it advances, 
and they mature much faster than the first, and there in 
the kingdoms of their solar system the above order exists. 
The law in all of them is to develop the matter in each, 
up to a higher state from kingdom to kingdom, from 
sphere to sphere, on and forever on, out and forever out, 
up and forever up, through all the unfoldings of nature, 
expanding and growing in the principles of love, purity 
and wisdom. 

As one leaf is formed above another in the forest, and 
as from the acorn grows the oak, so with man. Man 
commences here in earth's school house by learning the 
simplest primary laws, then a grade higher and broader 
and so on through spirit life, from system to system of 
worlds, which are older and wiser than ours, and thus 
spending an eternity as learner and teacher in these 
spheres and worlds, gathering in from above as we can 
develop to obtain, and giving to spheres below him, ever 
receiving and ever giving wisdom which does not impov- 



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erish him, but is ever growing richer in love and wisdom 
while he passes along this road of progress from sphere 
to sphere, ever receiving and ever giving wisdom, still 
never loses wisdom by giving it away. This is a beauti- 
ful philosophy, the more you give away the richer you 
are, as Jesus said : It is more blessed to give than to re- 
ceive. 

PLANETS ON FIRE. 

I hear it said that some astronomers teach of planets 
being on fire, and of worlds burning up, and the danger 
of the sun and this planet being consumed by fire, etc. 

To all this I would say, that it is impossible for a 
planet to burn up. What they see that causes their 
alarm, is the appearance of a planet on fire, as I have be- 
fore given the philosophy of the repulsion of planets 
from their centers when a new planet is born from a belt 
of nebula gathered around said center. While this had 
been forming it cooled off the solar system around it, con- 
sequently all the system of planets gradually attracted 
towards their sun or center, and when the belt broke and 
rolled together and formed another planet. This fact let 
out the full force 3f rays or influence of the sun's rays 
upon the surrounding planets and repelled them millions 
of miles into space, and while they w r ere making this 
transit, repelled by a powerful magnetic storm from their 
sun, the positive rays from their center were caught by 
the polar motion or currents from north to south, and the 
rays were carried into their negative or attractive poles, 
and through the planet and out at their positive pole, pro- 
ducing an aurora borealis of excessive fire, so much so, 
that it would not only cover the whole earth or planet, 
but produce a long fiery tail in the rear, as it was being 
repelled away through space. And as it passes another 
planet, the friction on the atmosphere of that planet 
would draw a part of the heat and light in another direc- 
tion, and consequently for the time being would produce 
two tails to the comet while passing, and while it was 
passing between two planets, it will, by the same laws, 
produce three tails for a time, all of which is but the 
effect of the laws in nature. The friction of atmosphere 
produces all the heat and light, and while doing so, our 
astronomers, or some of them, with advent proclivities, 
sound the alarm that there is a world on fire, while in 



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that apparently burning state. And the most burning 
shame is that such so-called astronomers do not study the 
cause more and print less, in place of flooding the world 
with the false idea that planets ignite and burn up, be- 
cause they can no longer see them with their diminutive 
telescopes when they cool off. 

I will bind myself to snuff up, pinch by pinch, the 
ashes of all worlds burned up, since the first morn of cre- 
ations dawning. It takes babes, fools and mediums like 
myself, who have never read a page of astronomy or phi- 
lospohy in their life to teach them their alphabet in phi- 
losophy in regard to what they take for burning worlds. 
The great positive and negative or God principle in na- 
ture is not such a fool as to burn his works, after being 
millions of years in creating them, no, no ! he will work 
them all up into mind and wisdom first, and if he wants 
to make any thing else of them he will have plenty of 
time to think of some better use to make of them, than to 
burn them up. Besides he has overcome his destructful- 
ness by development long since he allowed the bible to 
be written for the use of such would-be philosophers and 
astronomers who can only read the outside of the book, 
(Rev. 5.) So the fears I hear so much about from bible 
advent preachers and would-be philosophers can all be 
quelled, the earth is safe, it will not be burned up and 
destroyed, it will keep on rolling only farther from the 
sun and the days will be longer and the years about one- 
third longer and a new system of time will be introduced, 
and a new day will appear after the equinoxial storm is 
over, when the sun will pass through Pisis. Our earth has 
had three such wonderful throws before to pass through 
and will be prepared for the fourth. 

In 1889, January 26, I shall expect to see the heavens 
all in a blaze of fire from the north pole, and the center 
of the earth melt with fervent heat, causing the aurora 
borealis or internal heat through the earth as above de- 
scribed, but not one grain of its sand will burn up or 
perish. I expect it to be very warm for the time of 
a year, and to see the whole heavens illuminated, caused 
by the excessive heat through the earth, producing one 
of the most awful displays ever witnessed, but more peo- 
ple will be scared to death and pray themselves to death 
than will lose their lives by fire. Many will be drowned 
by changing waters, many die by tornadoes and falling 



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buildings, etc., etc. Earthquakes without number will 
occur, hail storms and high winds will play a conspicuous 
part. All told, it will cause the loss of life of at least 
one-third of earth's inhabitants. The center of the earth 
will melt with fervent heat, but the crust will remain 
sound, except by earthquakes in divers places, which will 
destroy many, and the earth shall be scourged as by fire, 
still none will be burned except by burning buildings 
and cities, etc. It will be awful to endure, some twenty- 
one days of awfulness before the heavens will begin to 
clear, and earth resume her former quietude. But after 
a time there will be such a beautiful time that there will 
be no more darkness, and night will dissappear forever, 
for our eternal day and the beauty and purity of the at- 
mosphere will be heavenly ; no sickness, sorrow, pain or 
death will mar the eternal beauty of the sphere of earth. 
It will appear like a brighter star than Venus after the 
gloom is . over, almost equal to the star of Bethlehem 
which is soon to appear to the earth's inhabitants. It 
will be due in 1887, and appear in Cassiopia's chair, and 
it will be accompanied by a total eclipse of the sun and 
moon. This star makes its appearance only every 315 
years, and is so bright that it will be seen at noonday. 
It will precede the great event of the birth of a new 
planet from the sun in our solar system two years. 

THE MOTION OF THIS PLANET THKOUGH SPACE. 

There are but few people who are aware of how fast 
they are moving or are being whirled through space. 
The earth has three motions constituted in one, there is 
the " rotary motion, " or once around every twenty four 
hours and the " orbitual motion " around the sun every 
year, and then our sun is passing around its center (Plea- 
ides) which takes it twenty four thousand years to go 
around, and carries our solar system along with it. 

The following are the several distances and the time oc- 
cupied : We move once around the world through space 
which is 25,000 miles a day or 1,042 miles an hour, 173 
miles a minute, or three miles a second. In a year the 
earth's motion is 365 times around, a distance of nine 
million, one hundred and twenty-five thousand miles, and 
one revolution around the sun is 370,000,000 miles. The 
earth is carried along with the sun in its revolution around 



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its center (Pleaides) 150,000,000 miles, making in all 
729,1 25,000 miles a year, making for each day 200,000,000 
miles and for each hour 83,383, for each minute 1,388, 
and for each second of time 231 miles through space that 
we are moving. 

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